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by csours 2y ago
Another way to say this: Bad drivers make YOUR insurance more expensive than it should be. I think there are a few problems: 1. The opt in should have been much clearer, and probably should have been a real option not just all or nothing. 2
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First Class tickets get suspended animation tanks
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Abbot and Costello - Who's on First - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOUFGfK4bU SNL - Republican or Not - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_N80qKYOM If one desires understanding and learning about t
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You board the Generation Ship Oregon Trail with some trepidation. If the scientists are correct you will be in suspended animation for the next 14272 years. You already feel colder somehow. To the West you see a robotic barkeep.
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"The only secret of magic is I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth" - Penn Jillette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trRJ4J15xU8
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Reading and writing are different transformations - they are not complementary or inverse - they are just different. Phonics gives you some clues to remember a word, context gives you other clues. Eventually, you may learn what kinds of wor
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Reminds me of this classic: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/msnbc/bad-... “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each America
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38. Capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say. I've been thinking about this one lately - What do we want to do? What can we do? 43. You really understand something the third time you see
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Reminds me of Nothing But Flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iiGqBfyLaw Feels like a depth optical illusion - the meaning can change based on perspective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_illus
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In meatspace conversations, we use non-verbal cues to signal intention to speak. In Meets space it's a lot harder.
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"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" - Murphy "Dubble check that spelIng" - Muphry Murphy was a rocket engineer. One day their assistant plugged in a non-keyed connector upside down. It was very easy for that to g
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This comment is your periodic HN plug for "The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error" - https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
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I feel like it's time to take seriously what we mean when we say 'bureaucracy'. In this case, it's not just the bugs, it's also the organizations. So what might we be talking about when we talk about bureaucracy? Th
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There are things that I want to shout at people, things that seem so blindingly obvious to me, but at the same time, I know that I probably would never have learned them if someone had shouted them at me. They are things that I had to notic
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When I think about presidents in terms of what they did AFTER their presidential term, it makes me very sad that Jimmy Carter was not re-elected.
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'Never attribute to ethics that which can be explained by incentives' - Hanlon's Hammer 'Show me an organization's stupidity and I'll show you their malice' - Munger's Psychology of Human Misquotation
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See also Disney's Animatronics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk You can start at minute 39 to skip background info
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Unfortunately, in the real world, playing the game changes the game. For instance, casinos have different payout schedules for Blackjack based on minimum bet size and number of decks in the shoe. Payouts for single deck Blackjack are very s
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I like it. Another tweak: Low Information Extra Satisfying
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> The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. And this is why "conspiracy" theories exist. I prefer to call them Low Information High Satisfaction theories, as I fee that is a more accurate name. I am do not intend to pass judg
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I wonder if you might say something more substantial? This seems like a low effort nitpick as written.
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This is a hugely contingent decision. I would advise working with professionals for your specific needs, or at least specifying your needs as much as possible.
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The scariest and most exciting words are "That's funny ..." --- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny...” —Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) https:/&
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Planning and Learning are toxic to each other - As you learn, the scope of the plan must change. As you plan, you reduce the scope of what you may learn. Example: We are migrating legacy code to new hosting with a small change. The plan is
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I spent a week burl hunting with my uncle in Alaska. Good times! (except for the mosquitos)
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I watched Bowie's 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' after hearing a very wide range of opinions - love, hate, and "meh". It's a very interesting film in somewhat the same vein as 2001 - It does not provide a narrativ
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My ideal service layer has a functional core - easy to understand, easy to test. linked from the article: https://www.javiercasas.com/articles/functional-programming-...
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Just insane
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I feel like critique in an academic context is a tool for communication, one way among many of understanding a system (or systems). However, that same critique is easily moralized in a political context, and communication stops cold. In the
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Nobody knows = there is wide disagreement https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33309818/ My personal feeling is that I can eat like a king every day of the week. If I only had access to one kind of dessert, I'd be fine

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